Film
Shakedown
- Director
- Leilah Weinraub
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 72 mins
Leilah Weinraub‘s award-winning documentary takes us inside a biweekly party at a Los Angeles club, founded by and for black queer women and featuring strip shows and ‘explicit dancing’. The Shakedown party was one of the few spaces where lesbian subcultures could flourish, being as much about the network that formed around it as it was about the economy that supported its organisers, performers and costume makers. The party ran for eight years before it was shut down by police.
Shakedown is screened as part of the Palace International Film Festival.
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